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Existing-Home Sales Slide in December; 2016 Sales Best Since 2006

WASHINGTON (January 24, 2017) — Existing-home sales closed out 2016 as the best year in a decade, even as sales declined in December as the result of ongoing affordability tensions and historically low supply levels, according to the National Association of Realtors®.

New home sales (November)

National economic indicators

Home ownership

3rd Quarter 2016

3rd Quarter 2015

The homeownership rate of 63.7 percent was not statistically different from the rate in the fourth quarter
2015 (63.8 percent) or the rate in the third quarter 2016 (63.5 percent).

New home sales

Dec 2016

-10.4%

Nov 2016

+5.2%

Sales of new single-family houses in December 2016 were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 536,000, according to
estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This
is 10.4 percent (±12.2%)* below the revised November rate of 598,000 and is 0.4 percent (±11.7%)* below the December
2015 estimate of 538,000.

Source: U.S. CENSUS BUREAU

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Regional market updates

View market statistics for your region.

Click on the links below to view data from two different industry sources. Choose information on local prices & state sales from any of 178 metropolitan housing markets prepared by the National Association of REALTORS® or information on sales & price activity from local area markets in 25 states prepared by Clarus MarketMetrics.

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